Community-Engaged Research Institute

Catalog description

The proposed course is to introduce students to the principles, frameworks, and operational practices of community-engaged research, including how to identify and build community partnerships and co-create research agendas, navigate ethical and power issues, and engage stakeholders in dissemination and advocacy. Skill-building in this way will prepare clinician-scientists for engagement in successful collaborative grants. Participation will also provide trainees with practical skills in advocacy, cultural humility, ethical engagement in community settings, communication, and collaborative problem-solving. Exposure to community-engaged methods prepares trainees to be leaders in patient- and community-centered research and public health advocacy. The course is an applied experience: students will work in small teams to develop and practice skills and engage directly with community stakeholders as they create their own positionality statements and research equity checklists. Experiential components will enhance readiness to engage in community-based research. Learning Outcomes By the end of the course, students will be able to: • Define and differentiate key concepts in community-engaged research and understand the frameworks of the field. • Critically examine issues of power, trust, equity, cultural humility, ethics, and sustainability in community-academic partnerships. • Appraise partnership agreements for community-engaged research proposals. • Understand strategies for dissemination of findings to community stakeholders in accessible formats and identify pathways for sustainability and translation of results into practice or policy. • Reflect on their own role as researchers within community-engaged partnerships, including considerations of positionality and reflexivity.